Global Agenda has recently been updated with Sandstorm Phase 2 bringing with it a host of changes that have pleased the player base. MMORPG.com writer Bill Murphy has spent some time in Sandstorm's Sonoran Desert Open Zone and has some thoughts about how the game is shaping up. Keep reading to find out more about Sandstorm Phase 2!

Global Agenda has been quietly patching away since release, making an already stellar persistent shooter something more than it was likely ever intended to be. Hi-Rez Studios recently made the decision not only to cut the subscription model entirely from their game and instead focus on more of a Guild Wars-esque expansion system, but long before this decision the Georgia-based team’s game was already taking shape as a real hybrid MMORPG/TPS in light of player demands. Just last week the studio released the second phase of their massive Sandstorm update to the live servers, and after spending some time with the new Sonoran Desert open zone and the rest of the upgrades I’m finding my interest in defeating the Commonwealth rising once more.